The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-09-08
GENERAL NEWS.
Doings Throughout the World and
the Nation.
Items Taken From the Latest 1eie.
graphic Reports on Subjects
Of Interest.

Of Interest.
The fire in the Calumet & Hecla mine
Is out, and the shaft was opened Monday.
OThe president has appointed !Chas. o.
Stoklager receiver OF public moneys at
Haley, Idaho.
A terrible conhagration is raging in the
town of Vezpirum, Hungary, 200 houses
having been burned.
Speaker Carlisle went to Oakview last
Thursday afternoon to spend few days
as guest of the president.
Kingston broke the seven-eighths of a
mile record at the Coney Island meeting
last Thursday. Time, 1:27.
The Memphis & Little Rock railroad
wos sold under mortgage last week to r.
K. Dow, of New York, for S2,800,000.
The English government proclaimed
the projected monster meeting of the
league at Bally Coree-Clare On Sunday.
The steamer Sa1naria, which left Liver
pool August 81, for Boston, has been
sighted returning to Queenstown, dis
abled.
There has been an alarming outbreak
of trichinosis in Brunswick, Germany.
Sixty persons have been afflicted, of
whom seven died.
-Four hundred feet of boring will COM
plete the tunnel through the Siskiyou
mountains on tho line of the California &
Oregon railroad.
Seven line steamers which have sailed
from the port Of Queenstown in the two
days following August 29th took on
board 85S enigrants for America.
William Dunphy, the great cattle man.
has just selected 10000 acres more Of
railroad land in Nevada, making nearly
10000 acres he has taken this year.
If the Cuban agitation increases, Pre-
mier Sagasta will summon the cortes to
meet at Madrid in October to consider
what can be done to pacify the Cubans.
DR.. Carver, in the shooting exhibition
at Dubuque, Iowa, last Tuesday, broke
a thousand glass balls in forty-three min
utes and twenty-three and half seconds.
Latest advices from Hill county, Texas,
state that every bridge in that county
was washed away by rains and the DAM
age to crops and farms will not fall short
of $4,000.
Jefferson Davis has accepted an invi-
tation to attend the state fair in Macon
on October Goth. On that day there will
be reunion of all surviving ex-confed-
crate soldiers.
Advices from Valparaiso, dated July 90,
says: A severe earthquake shock was
experienced here on Thursday at 4 p. M,
followed by another shock yesterday and
two this morning.
A number of ladies of Madrid have Or
ganized a series of national basque
games for the purpose OF raising funds
for testimonial to the pope on the oc-
casion of his jubilee.
While big gun was being cast in Shef-
field, Eng, last Tuesday, it exploded,
killing four men on the spot and lnjuring
many others. The buildings of the estab-
ishnlent were moro or less shattered.
Cholera has been raging at Angot, in
the Argentine Republic. On July 30
there were 50 cases in Mazarato and Con-
ception, and about 50 in private houses.
The epidemic is now sweeping northward.
Mrs. Maloney, the woman evicted at
Herbertstown last Wednesday, died on
Saturday. All the shopkeepers OF Bruf,
Ireland, closed their shutters out OF re-
spect for the deceased. An inquest will
be held.
There is great excitement at Warakon-
eta, Ohio, over the absence of Israel
Lucas, county treasurer. Lucas lett
town last Saturday night and has not
returned. His accounts are discovered
to be $1,000 short.
The sealing schooner Pathfinder has
arrived at Victoria, having on board
2,377 seal skins. During the time she was
in Behring Sea she only spoke one vessel
and did not learn of the seizure Of seal
ing schooners until she arrived here.
The ship, Falls of Bruar. of Glasgow,
bound from Hamburg to Calcutta, with
a cargo Of salt, foundered off Yarmouth,
the cargo having shifted. Five of the
crew were rescued and tw cnty -four were
drowned, most of whom were Germans
and Swedes.